Library Holiday Hours
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016 at
4:39 pm
The TMC Library will be closed Thursday, November 24 and Friday, November 25 in observance of Thanksgiving Day. Regular hours resume Saturday, November 26.

Digital Commons Welcomes a 3rd Open-Access, Peer Reviewed Journal
Tuesday, October 18th, 2016 at
5:53 pm
The first issue of JoNILQS Journal of Nursing & Interprofessional Leadership in Quality & Safety, is online! JoNILQS is published in spring and fall by School of Nursing faculty of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. The journal’s focus is on practical, scalable quality improvement initiatives in healthcare. Clinical and administrative healthcare […]

NCBI Testing Public Servers
Wednesday, September 21st, 2016 at
9:40 am
NCBI will be testing https on public web servers from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT (13:00-17:00 UTC) on Thursday, September 22. You may experience problems with NCBI web sites during that time. Please plan accordingly. Read more.

Labor Day Holiday Hours
Friday, August 26th, 2016 at
5:36 pm
The TMC Library will be closed Monday, September 5 in observance of Labor Day. Regular hours resume Tuesday, September 6.

Parking in Front of the Library
Thursday, August 25th, 2016 at
12:21 pm
Please note: effective September 1, 2016, the circular drive in front of the Jesse H. Jones Library building will become a non-parking zone. Vehicles parked in front of the library will be towed.

PubMed Access Problems
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016 at
4:16 pm
We are having an issue with our proxy access to PubMed. The problem has been reported to NCBI; we hope it will be resolved soon. Ovid Medline or Embase databases are other options for searching the medical literature. Thank you for your patience.

UT Blackboard Login no Longer Available
Wednesday, July 20th, 2016 at
5:18 pm
UTHealth students will no longer be able to login to the TMC Library resources via Blackboard. Everyone needs to create a resource access login

Access to Interlibrary Loan Requests
Friday, July 15th, 2016 at
5:44 pm
The TMC Library will be upgrading the Interlibrary Loan software. The ILLIAD site will be down Monday, July 18 at 3:00 pm and Tuesday, July 19 while we migrate over to hosted services by OCLC. Library users will not be able to submit requests or access the ILLIAD pages until Wednesday, July 20.

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Provider: International Neuroinformatics Coordinating FacilityDescriptions: INCF develops and maintains database and computational infrastructure for neuroscientists. Software tools and standards for the international neuroinformatics community are developed through INCF programs that address infrastructural issues of high importance to the neuroscience community. INCF collects and makes available neuroinformatics tools in the INCF Software Center, where anyone can upload documentation, executables and related files, track use of their software, create a wiki, and establish development teams. Two of the most popular INCF products are Waxholm Space and MUSIC, which are direct outcomes of the INCF Program on Digital Atlasing and Multi-Scale Modeling, respectively. INCF also arranges Scientific Workshops and holds an annual neuroinformatics conference.Keywords: biomedical research, brain, brain mapping, informatics, neuroscience, open access, open source, research

Provider: IHTSDO (International Health Terminology Standards Organisation)Descriptions: IHTSDO is a not-for-profit association that develops and promotes use of SNOMED CT to support safe and effective health information exchange. SNOMED CT is a clinical terminology and is considered to be the most comprehensive multilingual healthcare terminology in the world... Each year, avoidable deaths and injuries occur because of poor communication between healthcare practitioners. The delivery of a standard clinical language for use across the world's health information systems can therefore be a significant step towards improving the quality and safety of healthcare.Keywords: electronic health record, informatics, information management, international, multilingual, ontology, quality, software, standard of care, terminology

Provider: Institute of Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics Freiburg, GermanyDescriptions: A regularly updated index of links to websites devoted to health informatics, medical and nursing informatics. Institutions and organizations are listed by country and also can be browsed by topic category. On the main page is a listing of upcoming international informatics conferences and events.Keywords: data analysis, health statistics, informatics, information science, international, measurement, multilingual, science

Provider: TIGER InitiativeDescriptions: From the website, the new vision statement: “To enable nurses and inter-professional colleagues to use informatics and emerging technologies to make healthcare safer, more effective, efficient, patient-centered, timely and equitable by interweaving evidence and technology seamlessly into practice, education and research fostering a learning healthcare system.” Some of the organizations involved in the TIGER initiative include the Alliance for Nursing Informatics, the American Nurses Association, the AACN, and the Association of Nurse Executives. Readers are free to join the effort or simply keep up with developments by reading the teams' WIKIs.Keywords: care, decision support, electronic health record, evidence-based practice, informatics, networking, nursing, standard of care, technology, wiki, workforce

Provider: International DOI FoundationDescriptions: DOI, or Digital Object Identifier, is a standardized system for providing actionable, persistent and interoperable links to "objects," the scope of which was originally limited to online documents, but which term is now applied in this context to online datasets, videos and other formats and types of information containers. Every resource relevant to DOI's is either present in or linked to from this website, for instance: FAQ's, a detailed handbook, fact sheets and white papers; links to DOI registration agencies like DataCite and CrossRef; and links to browser tools being developed to facilitate and expand the usefulness and applicability of the Digital Object Identifier.Keywords: data, deep web, digital, DOI, informatics, information management, information science, links, ontology, open source, periodicals, portal, research, search, W4eb tools

Provider: American Nursing Informatics AssociationDescriptions: ANIA's Mission is to provide networking, education and information resources that enrich and strengthen the roles of nurses in the field of informatics. The website provides links to educational institutions offering programs in nursing or health informatics, provides a job bank for the specialty, and posts its conference information.Keywords: informatics, jobs, networking, nursing

Provider: NextBioDescriptions: NextBio Basic is a free web application providing access to a 'curated, correlated database' of public data which also integrates literature, clinical trials and scientific news. Its semantic framework is based on gene, tissue, disease and compound ontologies. A single search for information on a gene yields results categorically arranged on a single page: an overview of the gene's functions; a list of tissues in which the gene is expressed; diseases and compounds relating to the gene; a list of the top topic-associated researchers and authors; literature, associated clinical trials, and more. Registered users of this application (registration for this basic version is free) can personalize their experience, communicate, collaborate and share data with the rest of the NextBio community.Keywords: biomedical research, clinical trials, collaborative, database, datasets, genes, informatics, life sciences, ontology, scientist, search engine

Provider: National Institutes of HealthDescriptions: The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) is a semantically-enhanced portal to a dynamic inventory of Web-based neuroscience resources. An initiative of the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, NIF enhances discovery and access to often unindexed but publicly available research data, datasets, software and tools in the deep web, as well as linking to PubMed records and open-access literature. The NIF Project provides the NIF Registry, Antibody Registry, Drug Related Gene Database, neuroscience ontology and a way to contribute to it (via the NeuroLex wiki) and semantic tagging services. NIF Navigator, a customizable, stand-alone search tool for incorporation into websites or wikis, draws query results from all the NIF's own components and from other sites and accessible databases. The valuable resources at NIF are too numerous to be described adequately here.Keywords: biomedical research, clinical trials, data, data-sharing, datasets, disease, drugs, federal agencies, full text, genes, genomics, grants, images, informatics, links, networking, neuroscience, NIH, portal, research, scientist, social networking, software

Provider: NIGMS - National Institute of General Medical SciencesDescriptions: "The mission of [NIGMS] is to support research that increases understanding of life processes and lays the foundation for advances in disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention." NIGMS provides training and career grants, including a grants and opportunities program for minorities. This website is a gold mine for educators, providing scientist interviews, short films on special topics, an image database, posters, fact sheets, even interactive games. One can access or sign up for Biomedical Beat, the free NIGMS online newsletter, as well as order many other free publications. For researchers there is a blog, NIGMS Feedback Loop, that keeps one up to date on funding opportunities and future plans.Keywords: biomedical research, blog, disease, federal agencies, free, gateway, genomics, grants, health sciences, images, informatics, life sciences, medicine, NIH, open access, pharmacogenomics, podcasts, research, science, scientist, video

Provider: Alzheimer Research ForumDescriptions: This site contains and links to a huge number of resources for the Alzheimer researcher. Features include: a live discussion forum; citations to the latest papers (linking to PubMed); an international listing of institutes and laboratories; separate links for news on drugs, conferences and research; clinics information for the consumer; and more items too numerous to list here. It also provides links to the AlzSWAN Knowledge Base (see separate website listing) and its tutorials, and a collection of special seminars, on-line journal club discussions, recorded talks and other presentations that describe a variety of scientific hypotheses about the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.Keywords: aging, Alzheimer, biomedical research, brain, collaborative, drugs, full text, informatics, links, networking, neurology, neuroscience, news, ontology, RSS feed, scientist, video

Provider: American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)Descriptions: AHIMA is a professional organization advocating standards for the confidentiality and security of the patient medical record or personal health record, health information exchange, and the integrity of information practices. The organization's position statements on these and other matters pertaining to health information management and records management are available to read here. AHIMA also provides links to educational and career resources for those considering careers in health information management and for those already in the field.Keywords: advocacy, continuing education, education, electronic health record, ethics, healthcare administration, informatics, information management, information technology, jobs, workforce